Forthcoming Special Issue: “Spaces of Possibility: Education, Intersectionality, and Social Change”

In early spring 2015, JFS will publish its first double issue (7/8, Fall 2014/Spring 2015) on the special topic of “Spaces of Possibility: Education, Intersectionality, and Social Change,” guest-edited by Lena Wånggren (University of Edinburgh) and Maja Milatovic (Southern Cross University). We are excited to serve as the forum for what promises to be an important discussion of learning, teaching and researching in twenty-first-century higher education, carried out from a transnational standpoint and a variety of feminist intersectional perspectives. For more on the special issue, please read here.

The Journal of Feminist Scholarship is a twice-yearly, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published online and aimed at promoting feminist scholarship across
the disciplines, as well as expanding the reach and definitions of feminist research.

We conceive the mission of the JFS as an exploration of the state of feminist scholarship at the turn of the
new century, and we see this endeavor as part of a larger question of where
feminism itself is heading. We wish to encourage a discussion of feminist thought for the twenty-first century. What are its directions today, and what relationship does it sustain with the foundations laid down by feminist inquiry and action in earlier
centuries? We aim to publish work that explores the multiple theoretical paradigms
and political agendas of contemporary and historical feminist scholarship and the
potential intersections and tensions between these paradigms and agendas. We are
especially interested in examining productive controversies and divergences between
local and global contexts of feminism. We also welcome submissions that focus on
feminist pedagogies and activism.

Publishing the journal online means that we are able to offer open access to its
contents to feminist scholars anywhere in the world where there is an internet
connection. It also has an immediacy that allows us to publish articles on topics that
are in the here and now and to significantly shorten the time lag from submission to
publication for our contributors.

Please visit the submissions page to see our guidelines for authors and our contact
page for contact information for the JFS.